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SHS Web Conf.
Volume 69, 2019
The International Scientific and Practical Conference “Current Issues of Linguistics and Didactics: The Interdisciplinary Approach in Humanities and Social Sciences” (CILDIAH-2019)
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| Article Number | 00104 | |
| Number of page(s) | 10 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20196900104 | |
| Published online | 25 October 2019 | |
National in Form, Socialist in Content: USSR National and Language Policies in the Early Period
Chelyabinsk State University,
129 Bratiev Kashirinykh st.,
454001
Chelyabinsk,
the Russian Federation
* Corresponding author:shelestiuk@yandex.ru
The article traces the early Soviet national and language policies based on historical, historiographic, sociological, and sociolinguistic sources. The post-revolutionary 1917 policies in the USSR involved autonomy, federalization, linguistic diversity. The 1920s-1930s inaugurated the economic level-off of the outskirts with the center; indigenization of education and administration; development of native literatures, press, theatres; language construction; latinization. The 1930s marked strengthening of Russian (and Union-republican) languages, conceptualization of “convergence in a Soviet nation”, cyrillization. We conclude that USSR’s national and language policies reveal a pattern fluctuating from liberal (democratic self-governance of nationality territorial units, non-script languages construction, use of nationality languages, development of nationality media, cultures, literatures) to etatist (strengthening of the major nationality language, return to unifying patriotic ideology and education, civic consolidation).
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